Has UTV Drive gone?

[TheDaniel]

..and car forums with a section to advertise. Plenty!

 

[MarkP]

Although car forums are great the classifieds don't be viewed by many outside the forum so have a limited audience

 

[TheDaniel]

That's true, but there are plenty of forums it's just a matter of having the patience and time to put them up all over the place.

UTV Drive wasn't great though. A lot of people only use gumtree, I doubt many posted use UTV Drive alone. I dare say a lot of the cars on their site were also posted in many other places with people just looking to get coverage.

 

[Crow555]

I used it, UCNI and Autotrader to sell the Father-in-laws car earlier in the year. From the viewing stats, compared to UCNI and Autotrader, it was only a matter of time before it went under. I remember hunting out DC2 back in Autumn during a slow day and found a nice red one on UTV Drive. I showed a mate in work who had a DC2 and he said he'd seen that ad but it was at least 3 months old. The snow in the background should've been my first clue. If a good proportion of the stuff on there is already sold, then it's practically useless as a listings site. The only other one I know of is NICarfinder on the tele's site. I'd imagine it gets very little traffic too.

 

[Gaz86]

Has it gone already? I thought it was due to go end of this month

 

[cormac81]

The facebook groups could be doing some damage too? though going by the complete wasters that respond I cant see how anything is sold through them.

 

[Chris_702]

Facebook groups are a waste of time! Some clampets on there. BMW for sale, straight cash sale no P/Ex..... here m8 will u swap dat for a mint 99 corsa? ffs!

Put a few cars on the groups and get mailed to come and view the car, never appears!

 

[Gaz86]

The facebook groups could be doing some damage too? though going by the complete wasters that respond I cant see how anything is sold through them.

Me either. Does anyone actually bother to read adverts any more?? The amount of mongs I had texting asking all sorts of questions when all the info was in the ad was shocking! Not to mention the gumtree halfwits texting offering a grand under the asking price without even seeing the car. The level of some peoples intelligence astonishes me, really does!!

 

[jb205]

I used it, UCNI and Autotrader to sell the Father-in-laws car earlier in the year. From the viewing stats, compared to UCNI and Autotrader, it was only a matter of time before it went under. I remember hunting out DC2 back in Autumn during a slow day and found a nice red one on UTV Drive. I showed a mate in work who had a DC2 and he said he'd seen that ad but it was at least 3 months old. The snow in the background should've been my first clue. If a good proportion of the stuff on there is already sold, then it's practically useless as a listings site. The only other one I know of is NICarfinder on the tele's site. I'd imagine it gets very little traffic too.

Yep, that was my DC2 - for sale about 18 months ago, so I guess that tells the story! I tried to erase from the site once it sold (quickly) Cool car...

 

[Crow555]

Looked a minter as well. I ended up with an FN2, not the same type of car, I know but I'm happy with it. Not surprised it went quickly. Well cared for DC2s are getting rarer by the month.